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GAHHH it's so f*****g hard to quit this f*****g sh*t when every f*****g person in your life partakes in it's effects the only way i can see myself quitting is either suicide, taking off, or total isolation, i f*****g wish i had never smoked regardless of the philosphical revelations and titilating conversations it's brought me it's long term effects o my mind and body are killing my creative spark and overall personality and self esteem can someone just please tell me that all of this returns after some time of quitting!? thank you responders
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its been 3 days and im about to explode, i need pot bad, im hurting myself by being angry help, im mad,,,
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Guys, this thread has been fantastic and really helped me out - one of the best sources of information I've found, Thanks.
Guess it's my turn now.
Started smoking weed around 15 years ago, had a busy life and a mad career and used to use weed to chill out at the end of a day or a Saturday night with the playstation and a few friends. About five years ago, I had a really stressful year, changed job and got more time on my hands and stopped smoking cigs. This made me smoke more weed. I did not smoke a huge amount but I did smoke every day.
Started suffering with anxiety and panic attacks, these destroyed my confidence, I got depression and I started staying in trying to persuade people to come round so I was not smoking by myself. Life was horrible and all I looked forward to each day was getting home from work and rolling up hoping someone would turn up to relieve the bore.
I had a couple of nights off but the panic attacks did not go away so I assumed that they had nothing to do with weed. How stupid! I think I always new it was due to smoking weed but what else would I do with myself? How would I keep my friends if I stopped? How would I sleep at night? I just stuck my head in the sand and pretended that there was no way that my precious weed could be affecting me like this.
Then I heard a government advert on the radio that said something like welcome to depression - anxiety... or refuse that first splif and it really hit the spot so I had a look at the website and found this forum.
I started to hate weed for what it had done to me and this made me cut down significantly, even though i smoked daily I smoked a lot less and I started to get withdrawal symptoms, the anxiety went mad.
After a week I had a heavy stoning session with a few of my friends on this good strong grass and it totally shot me through. I could not move properly and was hallucinating badly. I can remember thinking what have I done to my head? I hope it goes back to normal. I was actually worried that this time I'd really overdone it. After I sobered up again I decided to stop and have not touched weed since.
All I can say to anyone thinking about it is do it, don't be a Muppet like I was and suffer for years. I've been clean for about ten weeks now and it was hard to start with but well worth it.
I started going down the gym on an evening which worked for me as it makes you sleep and also helps you sweat the THT out, it also gets you out and with people who are trying to improve their lives although in a different way.
The first few weeks I suffered quite badly with anxiety and then it started to gently reduce and I started to feel better after about three weeks. Life has improved so much I have not looked back at all, my last experience of being stoned was horrible and I use this every time I've been tempted.
The more time has passed, the better I feel. The world seems more colourful now, and not frightening like it did before. I want to be out doing things and the extra time is fantastic. Remember the old trainspotting line...Chose Life.
I hope my experience helps anyone who is thinking about stopping, it is not as hard as you think and really is worth it but it needs 100% commitment. So many people who dont know about my weed past have said how I've changed in the last few weeks.
Chose life!
Guess it's my turn now.
Started smoking weed around 15 years ago, had a busy life and a mad career and used to use weed to chill out at the end of a day or a Saturday night with the playstation and a few friends. About five years ago, I had a really stressful year, changed job and got more time on my hands and stopped smoking cigs. This made me smoke more weed. I did not smoke a huge amount but I did smoke every day.
Started suffering with anxiety and panic attacks, these destroyed my confidence, I got depression and I started staying in trying to persuade people to come round so I was not smoking by myself. Life was horrible and all I looked forward to each day was getting home from work and rolling up hoping someone would turn up to relieve the bore.
I had a couple of nights off but the panic attacks did not go away so I assumed that they had nothing to do with weed. How stupid! I think I always new it was due to smoking weed but what else would I do with myself? How would I keep my friends if I stopped? How would I sleep at night? I just stuck my head in the sand and pretended that there was no way that my precious weed could be affecting me like this.
Then I heard a government advert on the radio that said something like welcome to depression - anxiety... or refuse that first splif and it really hit the spot so I had a look at the website and found this forum.
I started to hate weed for what it had done to me and this made me cut down significantly, even though i smoked daily I smoked a lot less and I started to get withdrawal symptoms, the anxiety went mad.
After a week I had a heavy stoning session with a few of my friends on this good strong grass and it totally shot me through. I could not move properly and was hallucinating badly. I can remember thinking what have I done to my head? I hope it goes back to normal. I was actually worried that this time I'd really overdone it. After I sobered up again I decided to stop and have not touched weed since.
All I can say to anyone thinking about it is do it, don't be a Muppet like I was and suffer for years. I've been clean for about ten weeks now and it was hard to start with but well worth it.
I started going down the gym on an evening which worked for me as it makes you sleep and also helps you sweat the THT out, it also gets you out and with people who are trying to improve their lives although in a different way.
The first few weeks I suffered quite badly with anxiety and then it started to gently reduce and I started to feel better after about three weeks. Life has improved so much I have not looked back at all, my last experience of being stoned was horrible and I use this every time I've been tempted.
The more time has passed, the better I feel. The world seems more colourful now, and not frightening like it did before. I want to be out doing things and the extra time is fantastic. Remember the old trainspotting line...Chose Life.
I hope my experience helps anyone who is thinking about stopping, it is not as hard as you think and really is worth it but it needs 100% commitment. So many people who dont know about my weed past have said how I've changed in the last few weeks.
Chose life!
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that just you then , casue everyone else here has bad problems with it ok
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Marijuana which i’ve only smoked for a year compared to other people here along with other influences (peers)has almost ruined my life, i think it lowered my self esteem which in turn has dulled my creative spark (when sober) which is really f*****g depressing, and has turned me into a socially retarded anxious paranoid freak. So i tried to quit a few weeks ago i lasted for a week I really thought I was getting better then gave into f*****g peer pressure and am now back in the vicious cycle that is my daily toking habit, which is why I’m scared of how i feel now, which is passive and almost carefree about the situation, i think I’ve become so far-gone in my habit that I’ve become numb to it’s effects on my life, I still think that i should lay off the herb seeing as i'm 15 and this really is a crucial time in my adolescence for my brain to develop and so forth as well as the fact that i think i'm truly mentally addicted to this sh*t now to the point where i think i've become subconsciously willfully ignorant to it’s effects long and short term just to minimize the real magnitude of the problem so i don't completely loose it, my thoughts on it runs to deep for me to express in words but i think i'm just waiting until a drastic event occurs and i'll finally gain some much needed clarity or just alter my life creating said clarity, I think this is just me procrastinating and at this point I don’t even know why I’m posting this anymore because I really don’t know if there are anymore words of wisdom that will help me change my ways, I’m in a bad place and I feel selfish towards humanity for complaining about my BS but I just want all the mind altering substance use to stop and for me to go back to the road I was on before I got caught up in this sh*t. I don’t know if I’m expecting a reply to this or not because I don’t even know if there’s anything here to reply to but I would like to know as I’ve asked before on this site if my or humans in general mentality ever return to normal? And if this is to vague of a question than I’d like to know what a person feels like overall after complete detoxification compared to how they do when still smoking
I also think that seldom use of acid and x a few months ago has influenced me psychologically and irreparably but I don’t know if it’s for better or for worse but I think it does play a part in who I’ve become
I also think that seldom use of acid and x a few months ago has influenced me psychologically and irreparably but I don’t know if it’s for better or for worse but I think it does play a part in who I’ve become
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Rast: I like your post a lot, and i think you speak in a more thoughtful and true voice than i would expect from a 15 year old (no condescension intended).
I'm like you Rast, only been addicted for a little over a year, having a very hard time quitting for very long, and am seriously worried about 'permanent' effects of the drug abuse. You also mention you worry that your use of strong drugs, even if only one or two times, has effected you in ways that cannot be repaired.
The phrase you mentioned "i think i'm truly mentally addicted to this sh*t now to the point where i think i've become subconsciously willfully ignorant to it’s effects long and short term just to minimize the real magnitude of the problem so i don't completely loose it" speaks true to me. The mental state of addiction fundamentally changes your personality more than any temporary chemically intoxicated state could. Everything around us can turn to sh*t, we can suspect the cause is weed, but the addiction finds reason to keep smoking. It is important to remember we are against ourselves in this situation; we cannot trust ourselves.
I think the fear that drugs have 'permanently' effected us is partly a result of the anxiety caused by marijuana addiction. We have these terrible fears inside of us, and they manifest themselves (combined with minor guilt that we used these drugs and an unreasonable anti-drug message from mainstream culture) as a terrible and serious fear that we have done irreparable harm to our basic selves. I myself am still in the heat of withdrawals (how many times have i quit now, 11? 12?) but i have tentatively concluded that these fears are unfounded. No matter what chemicals we have ingested and what dormant mental problems they activate the brain is such a resilient organ that it will always recover, it usually just takes a lot a lot longer than we'd expect, or we'd like.
My advice to you and to myself: Cold turkey this sh*t, don't replace weed with another chemical if possible, and look up forward always with careful measured steps, one at a time.
I said i tentatively concluded the resiliency of the brain because in over a year of addiction the longest i have quit was 3 weeks, and despite feeling better there were obvious and nagging symptoms of weed withdrawal. Here is my question, to echo yours Rast,:
Question to anyone who has successively abstained from marijuana for a very long time: Will the symptoms completely go? Will the cravings to smoke weed, if not leave entirely, at least lessen some? Will food ever taste like anything but ash ever again? I realize these sound like foolish questions to you, recovered addict, but to me now i worry of life long doom. Also if someone answers this thank you for even bothering to read this message board after being recovered, it seems like most of us posting here are in the terrible throws of addiction and not much constructive help to one another, while someone who has overcome the addiction would be of enormous help.
I'm like you Rast, only been addicted for a little over a year, having a very hard time quitting for very long, and am seriously worried about 'permanent' effects of the drug abuse. You also mention you worry that your use of strong drugs, even if only one or two times, has effected you in ways that cannot be repaired.
The phrase you mentioned "i think i'm truly mentally addicted to this sh*t now to the point where i think i've become subconsciously willfully ignorant to it’s effects long and short term just to minimize the real magnitude of the problem so i don't completely loose it" speaks true to me. The mental state of addiction fundamentally changes your personality more than any temporary chemically intoxicated state could. Everything around us can turn to sh*t, we can suspect the cause is weed, but the addiction finds reason to keep smoking. It is important to remember we are against ourselves in this situation; we cannot trust ourselves.
I think the fear that drugs have 'permanently' effected us is partly a result of the anxiety caused by marijuana addiction. We have these terrible fears inside of us, and they manifest themselves (combined with minor guilt that we used these drugs and an unreasonable anti-drug message from mainstream culture) as a terrible and serious fear that we have done irreparable harm to our basic selves. I myself am still in the heat of withdrawals (how many times have i quit now, 11? 12?) but i have tentatively concluded that these fears are unfounded. No matter what chemicals we have ingested and what dormant mental problems they activate the brain is such a resilient organ that it will always recover, it usually just takes a lot a lot longer than we'd expect, or we'd like.
My advice to you and to myself: Cold turkey this sh*t, don't replace weed with another chemical if possible, and look up forward always with careful measured steps, one at a time.
I said i tentatively concluded the resiliency of the brain because in over a year of addiction the longest i have quit was 3 weeks, and despite feeling better there were obvious and nagging symptoms of weed withdrawal. Here is my question, to echo yours Rast,:
Question to anyone who has successively abstained from marijuana for a very long time: Will the symptoms completely go? Will the cravings to smoke weed, if not leave entirely, at least lessen some? Will food ever taste like anything but ash ever again? I realize these sound like foolish questions to you, recovered addict, but to me now i worry of life long doom. Also if someone answers this thank you for even bothering to read this message board after being recovered, it seems like most of us posting here are in the terrible throws of addiction and not much constructive help to one another, while someone who has overcome the addiction would be of enormous help.
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I started smoking pot when I was 14, by 27 starting getting high before having my coffee in the morning. For the 2nd year in a row, at 42 I am again quitting for Lent. My usage is daily, all day whenever I have which is I'd say 2/3 of the month, except the 20 hours a week I'm at work and while I'm sleeping. Also gave it up for a year or so at a clip during my pregnancies and few months after while nursing.
Starting week 3 of no use and am thinking I should quit permanently. My most important incentive is my oldest child is a young teen and I have almost been caught more than once! My husband has never gotten high in his life, knows I smoke and doesn't mind but has no idea how often.
I have had ALL the withdrawal symptoms. Anxiety, irritability, slight nauseousness, strange dreams, headaches, loss of appetite (lost 6 lbs in 2 wks) and now not feeling well, flu like symptoms. Have been sleeping about 4-5 hours a night. Waking up panicking I have forgotten something. My husband and children can't stand me I'm constantly yelling about something!
The past 2 weeks I have used lorazapam or advil pm to help sleep, but not every night. Mostly the nights I want a good nights sleep to get a good workout in the next day - 45 minutes cardio and 45 minutes weights, 3 days a week, also doing yoga.
I think I am detoxing at a quicker rate because I've been working out hard, using the sauna and steam room to sweat it out and taking vitamin and herbal supplements, drinking a lot of green tea.
Hopefully my chronic cough will go away too - I don't smoke cigarettes. I'm a wine/beer drinker and actually have no desire for that now that I'm not getting high.
These websites help identify and explain what we are going through.
Starting week 3 of no use and am thinking I should quit permanently. My most important incentive is my oldest child is a young teen and I have almost been caught more than once! My husband has never gotten high in his life, knows I smoke and doesn't mind but has no idea how often.
I have had ALL the withdrawal symptoms. Anxiety, irritability, slight nauseousness, strange dreams, headaches, loss of appetite (lost 6 lbs in 2 wks) and now not feeling well, flu like symptoms. Have been sleeping about 4-5 hours a night. Waking up panicking I have forgotten something. My husband and children can't stand me I'm constantly yelling about something!
The past 2 weeks I have used lorazapam or advil pm to help sleep, but not every night. Mostly the nights I want a good nights sleep to get a good workout in the next day - 45 minutes cardio and 45 minutes weights, 3 days a week, also doing yoga.
I think I am detoxing at a quicker rate because I've been working out hard, using the sauna and steam room to sweat it out and taking vitamin and herbal supplements, drinking a lot of green tea.
Hopefully my chronic cough will go away too - I don't smoke cigarettes. I'm a wine/beer drinker and actually have no desire for that now that I'm not getting high.
These websites help identify and explain what we are going through.
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being addicted to senci(weed) is all in your head it makes you feel good thats y u want 2 keep doing it u can quit if you really want 2
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dude my name is William Bowyer and im 14 and I just stoped smoking weed last weeek and anexity is taking over me I cant stand it ive been have anexity attacks and stuff for almost 4 days now what did you do how did you conrol it and how long did you have to go through this
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thats really good advice and im going to try that thx for the help
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Im 27 years old..Ive quit smoking weed myself recently, its been about 3 weeks and its been over a month since tobacco. I smoked cigarrettes for 10 years, and started smoking weed heavily everyday for about a year. I would mix the two substances in joints sometimes or smoke seperatley. I know a year isnt that long compared to most of you but yes, i definatly felt "addicted" whether psychologically or NOT, i needed it. It helped me escape reality, and thats what i felt i needed, and even at times right now, i wish i could and i want to smoke weed so bad (even more than tobacco!) and they say tobacco is as hard to quit as heroin!! nope, for me its weed, i fell in love with the escape and the imagination. I felt like it helped me through extremely "hard" times...but now i look back and honestly, the truth is, it caused most of those "hard" times or made them seem WAY worse than what they were. My judgements werent the right ones and now im paying for them. I felt like it took the edge off for certain situations that i needed it for but once i started smoking weed heavily, my life went down hill...quick. I guess my perception was way off. It sounds dramatic, but yes with some people it can be and it creeps up on you. I was like a different person and it didnt seem like a big deal at the time. I decided to quit after my brain felt like it was "overthinking" over worrying about stupid things and my once perfect skin, is now in recovery! I never had acne till i smoked weed. Its worth every little side effect of quitting. Ive been irratible, night sweats, DEPRESSION and anxiety off and on for a weeks. I just want my old positive self back.. I feel like my drive for life is slowly coming back.
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this is all a load of bull!!!! ive been smoking about half an ounce a week 4 about a year and already i can feel how much worse it is on me i cant now relax. if u like marijuana then fair enouf but i find it awful on my life! i think the govurnment should never legalize marijuana because it has a bad influence on peoples minds and situations.
i have recently lost my girlfriend because of me and my marijuana smoking. without it i dnt kno what mite of happened.
all i want 2 say is smoke weed and im sure u will feel end act like a total m***n just like me too!!!
i have recently lost my girlfriend because of me and my marijuana smoking. without it i dnt kno what mite of happened.
all i want 2 say is smoke weed and im sure u will feel end act like a total m***n just like me too!!!
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Hey! My name is Jason and I smoke some reallllly potent marijuana and I did it on Wednesday around 2. It is Sunday and Im still feelin distant, out of place, not much emotion, I feel time is messed a bit, and Im scared. It was my first time and I took alot. I keep gettin all these horror stories online and Im just wonderin what to believe. Its hard to focus and concentrate.
My friend says it happen to him once... it was a bad trip and to relax and it will go away way sooner then I think.
Its my first time
It is now comin to Wednesday and I can eat right now and I seem to be improvin
GWF <3.
God Bless <3.
My friend says it happen to him once... it was a bad trip and to relax and it will go away way sooner then I think.
Its my first time
It is now comin to Wednesday and I can eat right now and I seem to be improvin
GWF <3.
God Bless <3.
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hi,
my name is haylee, i have been smoking mull since i was 13, day in day out, before school, during school and after school. my mother never minded me smoking because i never used it in a bad way, so i was always doing it. it was so easily avaliable to me and i never thought of addiction. it was one day that i realised that i could not go a full day without it,i was addicted.
i am now 17 years old and im known as a pot head,it sux, most of my friends accept it, but some dont,and i hate it, i have had chronic anxiety attacks-so bad i thought i was dying and nearly called the ambulance-even though that sared me so badly, i still could wake up and have a cone, i know that with mull it is more-so mind over matter, but why arent the attacks enough to make me stop?????? does anyone have ideas to help the cravings stop, i am so determined but it has me wrapped around its dependant finger.
HELP :-(
cheers. Haylee
PeAcE
my name is haylee, i have been smoking mull since i was 13, day in day out, before school, during school and after school. my mother never minded me smoking because i never used it in a bad way, so i was always doing it. it was so easily avaliable to me and i never thought of addiction. it was one day that i realised that i could not go a full day without it,i was addicted.
i am now 17 years old and im known as a pot head,it sux, most of my friends accept it, but some dont,and i hate it, i have had chronic anxiety attacks-so bad i thought i was dying and nearly called the ambulance-even though that sared me so badly, i still could wake up and have a cone, i know that with mull it is more-so mind over matter, but why arent the attacks enough to make me stop?????? does anyone have ideas to help the cravings stop, i am so determined but it has me wrapped around its dependant finger.
HELP :-(
cheers. Haylee
PeAcE
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